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German 'Church tax miracle' continues with revenues up, membership down (Pillar)
Posted on 07/10/2026 23:07 PM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
“In Germany, religious communities that are corporations under public law have a right to levy taxes on their members,” The Pillar explained. “Every person in Germany who is officially registered as a member of the Catholic Church is required to pay church tax equivalent to 8-9% of their income tax liability, depending on the region in which they live.”
Notre Dame Investigating Anonymous Sex-Abuse Allegations Against Women’s Dorm Rector
Posted on 07/10/2026 22:19 PM (The Daily Register)
Cardinal McElroy: Exorcist role should be 'private' after priest's removal tied to UFO controversy (CNS)
Posted on 07/10/2026 22:07 PM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
At the time of Msgr. Rossetti’s removal, Cardinal McElroy said that “statements made by Monsignor Rossetti linking UFOs to demonic presence and the Center’s recent use of social media gravely undermine the Church’s very precise teaching on the devil, demons and exorcism.”
US bishops, Catholic organizations weigh in on Farm Bill (USCCB)
Posted on 07/10/2026 22:07 PM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
Archbishop Shelton Fabre, chairman of the Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, and Bishop A. Elias Zaidan, chairman of the Committee on International Justice and Peace, weighed in on various aspects of the bill in a July 9 letter to the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture.
The head of Catholic Relief Services, Catholic Charities USA, Catholic Rural Life, and the National Council of the United States Society of St. Vincent de Paul joined the two prelates in signing the letter.
Last Mass this weekend at 76 Iowa Catholic churches (Radio Iowa)
Posted on 07/10/2026 21:07 PM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
In April, the archdiocese announced that it would halt Sunday Mass at 84 of its parishes as it consolidates its parishes—163 in number, according to The Official Catholic Directory—into 24 pastorates.
Bishop says Nigerian government 'unserious' about combating terrorism, warns of God's judgment (EWTN News)
Posted on 07/10/2026 21:07 PM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
“In the security challenges that we are facing, we all know that the government is unserious,” Bishop Stephen Dami Mamza of Yola said to a journalist on July 7. “You cannot say that the government doesn’t have a hand in what is happening since the government is not prepared to resolve these issues and also give the military full authority to get rid of the terrorists.”
“We have air power, we have land power, and we have all the necessary advantages that we need in order to get rid of the insurgency,” Bishop Mamza continued. “But there is no will, there is no seriousness, there is no commitment, and there is too much politics in it.”
Bishop Mamza also warned that “both perpetrators of violent terrorism and those who fail in their responsibility to protect lives will face divine accountability ... God knows. His judgment is just and fair.”
India's Latin-rite bishops clarify norms on biritual faculties (Catholic Connect)
Posted on 07/10/2026 21:07 PM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
The commission stated that bishops do not have the authority to confer biritual faculties but must seek permission from the Apostolic See. Such faculties are to be granted for only a five-year period, and priests should seek them only to meet a genuine pastoral need, rather than because of “devotional attraction.”
US, Canadian Jesuits announce reduction in novitiates (Detroit Catholic)
Posted on 07/10/2026 21:07 PM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)
One will be based in Culver City, California; the other, in Detroit, Michigan.
“Running five novitiates takes an awful lot of Jesuit staff of very good people,” said Father Joseph Daoust, S.J., superior of the Detroit Jesuit community. “You have to have three or four Jesuits in each of the novitiates, who usually are more senior Jesuits who serve as the formators of the novices. If we could put the novices in only two novitiates rather than five, we would save an awful lot of very valuable manpower for other works of the Society of Jesus.”
As America Celebrates 250 Years, Rising Religious Illiteracy Threatens to Spoil the Party
Posted on 07/10/2026 20:29 PM (The Daily Register)
Federal Court: Maine Christian Schools Receiving Public Funding Must Follow Gender, Sexuality Rules
Posted on 07/10/2026 20:24 PM (The Daily Register)